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Social innovation has been increasingly regarded as an instrument through which transformative structural change, necessary to address grand societal challenges can be achieved. Social innovations are encouraged by the emergence of innovation systems that support changes not exclusively driven by a techno-economic rationality. In the context of this special issue, there has been both little understanding of social innovation systems within mainstream innovation ecosystem approaches and little analysis of the roles played by universities in social innovation systems. We here focus on the institutional complexity of universities and their field-level dynamics as serving as a potential break on the institutionalisation of social innovation. To deepen our understanding of this, we utilise a literature around institutional logics to foreground characteristics of organisational fields with regard to social innovation. Drawing on empirical data gathered in two public universities located in different countries, we show that in one case the potential of social innovation is undermined by two dominant institutional logics, in the other its permeation across the organisational field is seriously challenged by a more powerful dominant logic. The institutional logic approach is useful to highlighting the barriers to building productive innovation ecosystems incorporating social considerations, and helps to explain the persistent difficulties in reframing ecosystems approaches to reflect wider societal dynamics.
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Widening income and knowledge inequalities have led to growing expectations for universities to integrate social innovation in their core missions as a response to societal problems. This systematic review of literature provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of knowledge on the role of the university in enabling social innovation through its missions of teaching, research and third mission. It also identifies knowledge gaps in the field. A bibliometric approach wasused to identify and analyze books, journal articles and reports examining factors driving social innovation activities at universities, organizational and insitutional change to accommodate such activities as well as their impact. The review reveals that the literature on university engagement in socially-oriented activities as part of the third mission of the university is conceptually well developed and a growing field of inquiry. It also points to gaps in the knowledge base; relatively few studies address issues related to institutional change and incentive structures that influences the ability of universities to engage in social innovation. Likewise, impact studies on social innovation activities at universities are scarce. Further research that builds an impact measurement framework would support the process of integrating social innovation activities in the three missions of the university.
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Reviews the social role of universities in the urban context Covers themes and models of major interest Explains how to ensure a legacy of grassroots initiatives
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Cet ouvrage collectif a comme objectif de mettre en lumière le travail mené par les personnes et les organisations qui s’engagent à construire le futur en devenant des codéveloppeurs, acceptant par là même qu’elles ne possèdent qu’une partie des connaissances nécessaires aux projets qu’elles portent et bâtissent. Pour répondre à des besoins sociétaux de plus en plus complexes, de multiples institutions publiques et privées expérimentent ces nouveaux modes d’action inclusifs, qui consistent à travailler avec les parties prenantes des projets plutôt que de travailler pour celles-ci, afin d’ériger des biens communs et de s’assurer de leur usage. L’innovation collective : quand créer avec devient essentiel explore ces pratiques novatrices qui conjuguent audace, diversité et réalisme. Les projets dont il est question touchent à la ville, à la santé, au droit, au tourisme, au développement international, au commerce, à la technologie et à la recherche. Après avoir traité de l’innovation collective et de ses représentations, le livre aborde ses enjeux et ses échelles d’action, décortique certains dispositifs déployés pour créer avec et discute des rôles des acteurs engagés dans ces démarches. Ensuite, cinq expériences sont analysées par leurs participants, et les derniers textes portent sur les limites et les difficultés associées aux systèmes ouverts. Le présent ouvrage se veut une invitation à parcourir différentes facettes de ces innovations vivifiantes qui façonnent pas à pas l’avenir de la Terre.
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This work compares in a comparative way some advances in the promotion and management of Social Innovation adopted by four Latin American countries, including Panama, in order to generate more knowledge to promote the strengthening and design of new public policies in this ambit. Panama is in the incipient stage of Social Innovation management, compared to the other three countries analyzed: Colombia, Costa Rica and Chile. Among the structural elements addressed are: regulations, the degree of institutionality, mechanisms and incentives to promote social innovation projects and good institutionalized practices. Since 2014, Panama shows its interest and advances in the subject, in the academic and university academic sectors, which can take advantage of social innovation to obtain a greater impact in the country and promote a more inclusive social development. Colombia began efforts to promote Social Innovation in 2007, Chile and Costa Rica in 2014, as well as Panama. These three countries have a higher level of progress in the elements analyzed in their Social Innovation ecosystems than Panama, however, they do not have enough mechanisms to clearly identify the failures that prevent the strengthening of the culture of social innovation and, therefore, the establishment of much more effective public policies.
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